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Virotherapy Using Myxoma Virus Prevents Lethal Graft-versus-Host Disease following Xeno-Transplantation with Primary Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells

Overview of attention for article published in PLOS ONE, August 2012
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Title
Virotherapy Using Myxoma Virus Prevents Lethal Graft-versus-Host Disease following Xeno-Transplantation with Primary Human Hematopoietic Stem Cells
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PLOS ONE, August 2012
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0043298
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Authors

Eric Bartee, Amy Meacham, Elizabeth Wise, Christopher R. Cogle, Grant McFadden

Abstract

Graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a potentially lethal clinical complication arising from the transfer of alloreactive T lymphocytes into immunocompromised recipients. Despite conventional methods of T cell depletion, GVHD remains a major challenge in allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplant. Here, we demonstrate a novel method of preventing GVHD by ex vivo treatment of primary human hematopoietic cell sources with myxoma virus, a rabbit specific poxvirus currently under development for oncolytic virotherapy. This pretreatment dramatically increases post-transplant survival of immunocompromised mice injected with primary human bone marrow or peripheral blood cells and prevents the expansion of human CD3(+) lymphocytes in major recipient organs. Similar viral treatment also prevents human-human mixed alloreactive T lymphocyte reactions in vitro. Our data suggest that ex vivo virotherapy with myxoma virus can be a simple and effective method for preventing GVHD following infusion of hematopoietic products containing alloreactive T lymphocytes such as: allogeneic hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, donor leukocyte infusions and blood transfusions.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 21 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 19%
Student > Bachelor 3 14%
Student > Master 3 14%
Researcher 3 14%
Professor 2 10%
Other 3 14%
Unknown 3 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 19%
Medicine and Dentistry 4 19%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 19%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 5%
Other 2 10%
Unknown 5 24%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 November 2014.
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#7,415,394
of 22,673,450 outputs
Outputs from PLOS ONE
#88,025
of 193,525 outputs
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#55,483
of 167,805 outputs
Outputs of similar age from PLOS ONE
#1,692
of 4,229 outputs
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